§1.3.1τὸ δὲ χωρίον ὁ Κεραμεικὸς τὸ μὲν ὄνομα ἔχει ἀπὸ ἥρωος Κεράμου, Διονύσου τε εἶναι καὶ Ἀριάδνης καὶ τούτου λεγομένου· πρώτη δέ ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ καλουμένη στοὰ βασίλειος, ἔνθα καθίζει βασιλεὺς ἐνιαυσίαν ἄρχων ἀρχὴν καλουμένην βασιλείαν.
As for the place, the Kerameikos, it has its name from the hero Keramos, he too being said to be the son of Dionysus and Ariadne; and first on the right is the so-called Royal Stoa, where the king sits, holding his annual office which is called the Kingship.
ταύτης ἔπεστι τῷ κεράμῳ τῆς στοᾶς ἀγάλματα ὀπτῆς γῆς, ἀφιεὶς Θησεὺς ἐς θάλασσαν Σκίρωνα καὶ φέρουσα Ἡμέρα Κέφαλον, ὃν κάλλιστον γενόμενόν φασιν ὑπὸ Ἡμέρας ἐρασθείσης ἁρπασθῆναι· καί οἱ παῖδα γενέσθαι Φαέθοντα, ὃν ὕστερον ἡ Ἀφροδίτη ἥρπασε καὶ φύλακα ἐποίησε τοῦ ναοῦ.
On the tiling of this stoa there are statues of baked clay: Theseus throwing Sciron into the sea, and Hemera carrying Cephalus, who, they say, having become very beautiful, was carried off by Hemera who fell in love with him; and to him was born a son, Phaethon, whom later Aphrodite carried off and made guardian of her temple.
ταῦτα ἄλλοι τε καὶ Ἡσίοδος εἴρηκεν ἐν ἔπεσι τοῖς ἐς τὰς γυναῖκας.
These things both others and Hesiod have said in the poems on women.
§1.3.2πλησίον δὲ τῆς στοᾶς Κόνων ἕστηκε καὶ Τιμόθεος υἱὸς Κόνωνος καὶ βασιλεὺς Κυπρίων Εὐαγόρας, ὃς καὶ τὰς τριήρεις τὰς Φοινίσσας ἔπραξε παρὰ βασιλέως Ἀρταξέρξου δοθῆναι Κόνωνι· ἔπραξε δὲ ὡς Ἀθηναῖος καὶ τὸ ἀνέκαθεν ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος, ἐπεὶ καὶ γενεαλογῶν ἐς προγόνους ἀνέβαινε Τεῦκρον καὶ Κινύρου θυγατέρα.
Near the stoa stand Conon and Timotheus, the son of Conon, and Evagoras king of the Cypriots, who also brought it about that the Phoenician triremes were given to Conon by King Artaxerxes; and he did this as an Athenian and by ancient descent from Salamis, since in tracing his genealogy he ascended to his ancestors Teucer and the daughter of Cinyras.
ἐνταῦθα ἕστηκε Ζεὺς ὀνομαζόμενος Ἐλευθέριος καὶ βασιλεὺς Ἀδριανός, ἐς ἄλλους τε ὧν ἦρχεν εὐεργεσίας καὶ ἐς τὴν πόλιν μάλιστα ἀποδειξάμενος τὴν Ἀθηναίων.
Here stand Zeus surnamed Eleutherios and King Hadrian, who showed great benevolence both to his other subjects and especially to the city of the Athenians.
§1.3.3στοὰ δὲ ὄπισθεν ᾠκοδόμηται γραφὰς ἔχουσα θεοὺς τοὺς δώδεκα καλουμένους· ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ τοίχῳ τῷ πέραν Θησεύς ἐστι γεγραμμένος καὶ Δημοκρατία τε καὶ Δῆμος.
And behind is built a stoa containing paintings of the so-called Twelve Gods; and on the opposite wall Theseus is painted, and Democracy and Demos (the People).
δηλοῖ δὲ ἡ γραφὴ Θησέα εἶναι τὸν καταστήσαντα Ἀθηναίοις ἐξ ἴσου πολιτεύεσθαι· κεχώρηκε δὲ φήμη καὶ ἄλλως ἐς τοὺς πολλούς, ὡς Θησεὺς παραδοίη τὰ πράγματα τῷ δήμῳ καὶ ὡς ἐξ ἐκείνου δημοκρατούμενοι διαμείναιεν, πρὶν ἢ Πεισίστρατος ἐτυράννησεν ἐπαναστάς.
The painting shows that Theseus was the one who established equal citizenship for the Athenians; and a report has also otherwise spread among the many, that Theseus handed over the affairs of state to the people, and that they continued under democracy from that time until Peisistratus rose up and became tyrant.
λέγεται μὲν δὴ καὶ ἄλλα οὐκ ἀληθῆ παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς οἷα ἱστορίας ἀνηκόοις οὖσι καὶ ὁπόσα ἤκουον εὐθὺς ἐκ παίδων ἔν τε χοροῖς καὶ τραγῳδίαις πιστὰ ἡγουμένοις, λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἐς τὸν Θησέα, ὃς αὐτός τε ἐβασίλευσε καὶ ὕστερον Μενεσθέως τελευτήσαντος καὶ ἐς τετάρτην οἱ Θησεῖδαι γενεὰν διέμειναν ἄρχοντες.
Indeed, many other untrue things are said among the many, since they are ignorant of history and believe whatever they heard straight from childhood in choruses and tragedies to be trustworthy; and such things are also said concerning Theseus, although he himself ruled as king, and later, when Menestheus died, the descendants of Theseus continued as rulers down to the fourth generation.
εἰ δέ μοι γενεαλογεῖν ἤρεσκε, καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ Μελάνθου βασιλεύσαντας ἐς Κλείδικον τὸν Αἰσιμίδου καὶ τούτους ἂν ἀπηριθμησάμην.
But if I liked to trace genealogies, I could have also enumerated those who ruled from Melanthus down to Cleidicus, the son of Aesimides.
§1.3.4ἐνταῦθά ἐστι γεγραμμένον καὶ τὸ περὶ Μαντίνειαν Ἀθηναίων ἔργον, οἳ βοηθήσοντες Λακεδαιμονίοις ἐπέμφθησαν.
Here is also painted the exploit of the Athenians at Mantinea, who were sent to assist the Lacedaemonians.
συνέγραψαν δὲ ἄλλοι τε καὶ Ξενοφῶν τὸν πάντα πόλεμον, κατάληψίν τε τῆς Καδμείας καὶ τὸ πταῖσμα Λακεδαιμονίων τὸ ἐν Λεύκτροις καὶ ὡς ἐς Πελοπόννησον ἐσέβαλον Βοιωτοὶ καὶ τὴν συμμαχίαν Λακεδαιμονίοις τὴν παρʼ Ἀθηναίων ἐλθοῦσαν· ἐν δὲ τῇ γραφῇ τῶν ἱππέων ἐστὶ μάχη, ἐν ᾗ γνωριμώτατοι Γρύλος τε ὁ Ξενοφῶντος ἐν τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἵππον τὴν Βοιωτίαν Ἐπαμινώνδας ὁ Θηβαῖος.
Others and Xenophon have written the history of the entire war, both the seizure of the Cadmea and the defeat of the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, and how the Boeotians invaded the Peloponnese, and the alliance that came to the Lacedaemonians from the Athenians; and in the painting is a battle of the cavalry, in which the most famous are Grylus, the son of Xenophon, among the Athenians, and in the Boeotian cavalry Epaminondas the Theban.
ταύτας τὰς γραφὰς Εὐφράνωρ ἔγραψεν Ἀθηναίοις καὶ πλησίον ἐποίησεν ἐν τῷ ναῷ τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα Πατρῷον ἐπίκλησιν· πρὸ δὲ τοῦ νεὼ τὸν μὲν Λεωχάρης, ὃν δὲ καλοῦσιν Ἀλεξίκακον Κάλαμις ἐποίησε.
Euphranor painted these pictures for the Athenians, and nearby in the temple he made the Apollo surnamed Patroos (Ancestral); and in front of the temple, Leochares made one statue, and Calamis made the other, whom they call Alexikakos (Averter of Evil).
τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τῷ θεῷ γενέσθαι λέγουσιν, ὅτι τὴν λοιμώδη σφίσι νόσον ὁμοῦ τῷ Πελοποννησίων πολέμῳ πιέζουσαν κατὰ μάντευμα ἔπαυσεν ἐκ Δελφῶν.
And they say that this name was given to the god because, according to an oracle from Delphi, he stayed the pestilence which was pressing upon them at the same time as the Peloponnesian War.
§1.3.5ᾠκοδόμηται δὲ καὶ Μητρὸς θεῶν ἱερόν, ἣν Φειδίας εἰργάσατο, καὶ πλησίον τῶν πεντακοσίων καλουμένων βουλευτήριον, οἳ βουλεύουσιν ἐνιαυτὸν Ἀθηναίοις· Βουλαίου δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ κεῖται ξόανον Διὸς καὶ Ἀπόλλων τέχνη Πεισίου καὶ Δῆμος ἔργον Λύσωνος.
There is also built a sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods, which Pheidias fashioned, and nearby the council-chamber of the so-called Five Hundred, who advise the Athenians for a year; and in it is placed a wooden image of Zeus Boulaeus (of the Council), and an Apollo, the work of Peisias, and a Demos, the work of Lyson.
τοὺς δὲ θεσμοθέτας ἔγραψε Πρωτογένης Καύνιος, Ὀλβιάδης δὲ Κάλλιππον, ὃς Ἀθηναίους ἐς Θερμοπύλας ἤγαγε φυλάξοντας τὴν ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα Γαλατῶν ἐσβολήν.
And Protogenes of Caunus painted the Thesmothetae (Lawgivers), and Olbiades painted Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to guard against the invasion of the Galatians into Greece.